TridentTested
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I was born only 22 years after WW2, but to most was generations ago.
Then you remember the Falklands war in my teens, that was 36 years ago!
My dad bought me the Corgi die-cast Spitfire. Gorgeous it was, I loved it. We were on holiday at the time staying with an aunt and uncle near Preston, the uncle had been in the RAF, we got to talking about the war and whatever it was I said provoked him to reply sharply 'it was only thirty years ago!'.
At the time I knew I'd touched a nerve and shut up; but I remember thinking 'that's my point, thirty years ago is forever'.
I think of that conversation now whenever the Falklands War is mentioned. On that day his memories of the war were as close and as vivid to him as my clear memory of following the Falklands conflict is to me.